European Early Childhood Education Research Annual Conference, Tallinn University, 28-31 August 2013 | UNICA - Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe

European Early Childhood Education Research Annual Conference in Tallinn

More than 678 researchers from 50 countries will gather at the 23rd Annual European Early Childhood Education Research (EECERA, www.eecera.org) Conference hosted by Tallinn University on 28-31 August 2013. The theme of this year's Conferencer is „Values, Culture and Contexts“.

The Conference will be opened by the Minister of Education and Research, Jaak Aaviksoo, the President of EECERA, Chris Pascal, the Editor in Chief of the EECERJ magazine, Anthony Bertham from Birmingham University, Tallinn University Rector, Tiit Land, and the main organizer of the Conference, Marika Veisson, Professor at the Tallinn University Institute of Educational Science.

Keynote speeches:

“Values and contexts in early childhood education” by Marika Veisson, PhD, University of Tallinn (Estonia) - Supervisor of 9 PhD students at the Institute of Educational Sciences at Tallinn University
“Cultural Development in Ontogenesis” - Gennadi Kravtsov, PhD - Vygotsky Institute of Psychology (Russia), Director of psychology of personality department VIP RSUH. G.G. Dr. Kravtsov is a famous specialist in methodology of cultural-historical psychology. He regularly participates in the international conferences and symposiums, devoted to the problems of cultural-historical psychology, non-classical psychology, psychology of personality etc. He has great number of publications, including international ones.
“Quality in Early Childhood Education: Can it be International?” by Kathy Sylva, PhD, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) - Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Oxford. Kathy has carried out policy related studies on the effects of Early Childhood Education and Care on children’s development, with a particular interest in the contribution of quality to children’s outcomes. She also studies ways to support early literacy through school and home based interventions.
“Culture as Context for Development of Values: Examples from Family Life in India” by Nandita Chaudhary, PhD - Reader at the Department of Child Development, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi (India). She has been a Fulbright scholar at the Psychology Department, Clark University, USA, during the years 1993 – 94. Nandita is currently on study leave for the Senior Fellow programme of the ICSSR for research in the area of childhood and family for two years from April, 2012 – March 2014.
“European Policy Cooperation in the Field of Early Childhood Education and Care” by Nóra Milotay, PhD at University of Cambridge - A senior policy officer from the European Commission, Directorate for Education and Culture. After graduating from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Nóra taught for several years History and German at a secondary grammar school in Budapest, then she received her PhD in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and worked afterwards at the Ministry of Education and Culture in the Department for EU Relations.

The Conference is organized by the Department of Pre-School Pedagogy of Tallinn University Institute of Educational Science in co-operation with the Education and Science Ministry of Estonia and European Early Childhood Education Research Association.

Official Conference website: http://www.eecera2013.org

Click to see the Conference programme

Contact with the Organisers:
Ms Krista Must
Tallinn University Communication Manager
(+372) 640 9215
(+372)56 285 557
krista.must@tlu.ee
www.tlu.ee